Your System has Run out of Application memory

Buy a bigger one, not expensive and easy to install, put the existing drive in an external case and use it as extra storage.

Excellent Suggestion. Will look into it, Thanks again.

You're welcome

Same problem, Since i upgraded, I been moving files off and plan to roll back to Mountian lion. My MAC is almost unusable. I been using an app to clean memory, but if a walk away for more than 20 minutes machine is locked.

I am not happy with Mavrick, at all becuase of this.

carrierjason wrote:

Same problem, Since i upgraded, I been moving files off and plan to roll back to Mountian lion. My MAC is almost unusable. I been using an app to clean memory, but if a walk away for more than 20 minutes machine is locked.

I am not happy with Mavrick, at all becuase of this.

So we can assume 'clean memory' does nothing to help you?

That does tie in with the way 10.9s new RAM compression & extra file caching works. You are probably removing the benefits of 10.9 new feature by simply making it work like 10.8.

'Cleaning' RAM is a misnomer, unless you actually are running very leaky applications. All you do is cause the data to be re-read from disk or recalculated when needed. Disk is slower thean RAM.

See this explanation…

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/#compressed-memory

I suspect you are seeing other issues and blaming RAM, so create a new thread, explain your symptoms & post some actual data (full window Activity Monitor screen grabs, EtreCheck reports). Otherwise we can't help you do anything.

There are also several user tips for migrating to older OS's if you have actually given up with 10.9.

https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mavericks?view=documents

Ram, or disk space?

What are you actually doing?

I found inkjet9 related to HP desk jet 3050 j610 using .48 gigs of memory probably it was trying to internet print a job I killed inkjet9 and now it is all ok

I have seen inkjet9 mentioned here in another troubleshooting thread (searching 'inkjet9' may find it). I think the suggestion was to delete the printer & recreate it.

Otherwise remove the drivers, they seem to cause trouble on 10.9 look for updates if you require them.

Thanks !!!!!

Mavericks! Seems that there are a ton of people with the same issue. After about 10 minutes, all my aps are "paused". Let me know if you find a solution.

You are going to wait for one user to fix your Mac?

Reddperc posted here once in October, do you think waiting for them to tell you anything is a good idea?

Create your own thread, describe your issue, post an EtreCheck report, get you issue looked into…

http://etresoft.com/etrecheck

Otherwise keep waiting for a user who hasn't replied in over a month and may well have different issues…

Because Mavericks has a new method of managing memory (compressed memory), it is likely a low-level bug that wasn't apparent or wasn't a show stopper in the beta testing.

Apple has a lot of incentive to fix it, not just because of the number of affected customers, not just because of the number of affected Apple managers, and not just because this is a bug in a feature they bragged about in advertising, but also because Microsoft could make a commercial out of the error message if the bug persists.

The developers have their feet to the fire and they might even be working overtime and under pressure. They have to identify the problem in detail, find the cause, make a fix, and test the fix to make sure they aren't swapping one bug for another. It will probably be fixed in 10.9.1 or 10.9.2, depending on how difficult it is.

They have my sympathy. Let's just fidget impatiently until they are done.

I really hope Apple fixes this, I set up a script to kill the iPhotoshare process which seem to be cuasing me the issue. However the machine is no where near as useful as it was Mountain lion. I also know the Mavrick was free, but I would rather pay, than have issues.

I may end up buying a new machine, but I really wanted to get another year out of it.

Kenneth Collins1 wrote:

They have my sympathy. Let's just fidget impatiently until they are done.

Good luck with that! Fidgeting never fixed anything, I don't see how waiting for Apple to create a fix is a good choice, which release do you wait for 10.9.1, 10.9.2… ?

carrierjason wrote:

I really hope Apple fixes this, I set up a script to kill the iPhotoshare process which seem to be cuasing me the issue.

Have you looked at logs to see if other processes are part of the issue? How about finding out how to turn that feature off instead of killing processes with a great big hammer?!

How about all the other installed software? Have you tried safe mode, a new user account or disabling login items? How about fixing any disk damage in recovery mode?

Seriously both of you should stop 'hoping for fixes' & post EtreCheck reports so you can try resolving your issues (create a new thread & detail your issues). There are many reasons for Macs to misbehave. Sitting on your hands won't change anything unless you are lucky

Why are you assuming Mavericks is the only reason for issues, these boards are littered with posts from people whose Macs improved after deleting/ updating old software.

It's not unusual for the first release to have a code pratfall in it that is fixed in the point one release.

What you say makes a lot of sense. It happens very rarely for me, and I only recall Mail gumming up the works. I wouldn't know what to do with the information in Console, but I can try the other things.